immediatism
[ih-mee-dee-uh-tiz-uh m]
- a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.
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Origin of immediatism
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These English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from 1824, and their influence told in America.
The Negro and the NationGeorge S. Merriam
Their doctrine of immediatism—if we may invent a new term—is always one and the same, and always has been.
Abolition a SeditionGeo. W. Donohue
Garrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.
William Lloyd GarrisonArchibald H. Grimke